So, a lot has happened in regards to the next book since my last update. That update wasn’t that long ago, but I had an incredibly productive weekend of writing, editing, proofing, planning, and ideas coming to me like water from a broken dam.
Because I need to stay hyperfocused on getting this book done, which it nearly is, I’m going to keep this short and just knock out the details of the most recent developments quickly.
To start, the Killer and Bozmir story will not be in the anthology. I don’t necessarily need them to have an extra adventure before Killer gets home to Agamemnon in the upcoming Book IV (next after the anthology). I could use my time and the space in the book better with something fresh and new.
That fresh and new thing is actually an older idea I’ve been marinating on for probably a year now. It’s a story about a vigilante hero called the Green Serin. The cool thing is that I finally figured out how to make it work and where I could fit it in.
The masked mysterious hero is also someone that readers will already know. I won’t say more than that other than it ties directly to some of the lore in the big Elizabeth story, which is the anthology’s main event tale. This story will also have a connection to the 5th story, which I plan to write after this one.
The Green Serin story will be a pulpy sword-wielding masked hero more in the vein of Zorro than a contemporary superhero. Also, it takes place in a sword & sorcery setting and has some classic film-noir flavor.
The 5th story is going to be very short, compared to anything else I’ve written before. It’s about a cosmonaut, and that’s all I’m going to say about it for now. I’m still working out some kinks.
Overall, this is probably going to be the biggest book in the Barbarians of the Storm franchise, thus far. It’s faced delays because of my hectic life, as of late, but I think that the finished tome will make up for keeping BotS readers waiting longer than I would have liked.
That’s it!
Oh, and also, a video mood board trailer drops Wednesday. And with that, the book’s title and cover will be revealed!